this engine was the beginning of industrial motorisation of everything . everything before was not superior over steam engines, or to complicated . With this >Engine August Otto won several Awars on World Expos in the 1870s, and from this moment on August Otto and Eugen Langen had sufficient Funds to refine their Engines and scale up production. With the ongoing succes of this Engine , they where able to fund a small Property and build the Deutz Gasmotorenfabrik AG in Köln ( Deutz is the District Name on the left banks of the Rhine river) . within a very short time they where able to scakle up the production from only a couple engines a year to a couple thousand. and if u read up the History of the Deutz Ag, you will see that all Important faces of the Engine Whos Who was oncew a Son of this Company. Rudolph Diesel , Wilhelm maybach, Gottlieb Daimler , August Otto , Eleonore Bugatti.......the list is long.